Re: Nebula Finalists 1990

James Nicoll wrote:

1990! Commercial internet took the first baby steps towards the
online utopia we now enjoy, Thatcher demonstrated to fellow Tories
who truly enjoyed the Mandate of Heaven, and the world's supply of
Germanies abruptly fell by half.
 Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novels Have You Read?
The Healer's War by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Good News from Outer Space by John Kessel
Ivory by Mike Resnick
Prentice Alvin by Orson Scott Card

As a young lad I went to a picnic where sweets made without real sugar were featured.  I had three of them and enjoyed them very much.  But soon I began to feel poorly in a way I'd never felt before.  Even to think of that sugary taste makes me feel a bit ill, even today, even as I type. I've avoided artificial sweeteners ever since.  And Orson Scott Card.

Sister Light, Sister Dark by Jane Yolen
The Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson
 All but the Yolen. Can't say I really enjoyed the Anderson.

Liked the latter a bit more than you did.  Written earlier in his career this might have been a very good book indeed.  As it was, I've never been tempted to reread it.

  Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novellas Have You Read?
 The Mountains of Mourning by Lois McMaster Bujold
A Dozen Tough Jobs by Howard Waldrop
A Touch of Lavender by Megan Lindholm
Great Work of Time by John Crowley
Marid Changes His Mind by George Alec Effinger
Tiny Tango by Judith Moffett
 All but the Lindholm. There is strong correlation between me having
read a story and Dozois having anthologized it.
  Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Novelettes Have You Read?
 At the Rialto by Connie Willis
Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another by Robert Silverberg
Fast Cars by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
For I Have Touched the Sky by Mike Resnick
Silver Lady and the Fortyish Man by Megan Lindholm
Sisters by Greg Bear
 All but the Rusch.
  Which 1990 Nebula Finalist Short Stories Have You Read?
 Ripples in the Dirac Sea by Geoffrey A. Landis
Boobs by Suzy McKee Charnas
Dori Bangs by Bruce Sterling
Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card
The Adinkra Cloth by Mary C. Aldridge
The Ommatidium Miniatures by Michael Bishop
 Just the first three. I am pretty sure there's no connection between
the Card and the movies of the same name.

So very many stories I missed at this time.  I should be looking for the appropriate anthologies.
William Hyde